Recent statistics from the Australian Institute of Criminology show that teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19 are the most dangerous group within Australian society, with young Australians the worst offenders of serious violent crimes including assault and abduction.

A court in the Northern Territory has heard that Paul John Stamp was locked in the boot of a car and burned alive in September 2012 after his flatmate discovered that he had stolen one of his beers out of their communal fridge.

CRIME | The Whiskey Au Go Go massacre on 8 March 1973 exposed the rampant violence and culture of organised crime that existed just below Brisbane’s sunny veneer. PAUL BLEAKLEY looks back on this crucial moment in Australian criminal history, and its little known connection to the UK.

An Australian university graduate and Army Reservist, Manyang Maker Tulba, has allegedly been subjected to routine beatings and torture while being detained in a South Sudanese jail after witnessing violent ethnic clashes in the country’s north last month.

Adrian Ernest Bayley, the man accused of raping and murdering Irish woman Jill Meagher in Melbourne last year has pleaded not guilty to murder, and has been ordered to stand trial in the Victorian Supreme Court after a committal hearing at Melbourne Magistrate’s Court earlier today.

The woman at the centre of the “stupid, fat Australian” case has won an appeal against her 2012 conviction after a north-west England court determined that it would not be in the public interest to uphold the court’s original verdict.